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» BOB WHITE'S MESSAGE. A meadow wind, and a bar of song—- “O Bob White! O Bob White!” The morn has tangled the breezy « all In the tio.iting fringe of her vaisir-sliawl. And ta..selling coin-tips wave it along “O Bob White- Bob White!” Blowlng white clover is In the sound — ”O Bob White! <» Bob White!” Kuntch of wild locust in dim wool-way». Hint of the earliest haying days When honey-blobs grow ruddy 8 nd round— “O Bob White—Bob White!” Yellow June apples are turning ri|>e— “O Bob White! O Bob White!” There’s a stile half-lost in u rose-vine's hold, And a moss-Upped spring that Is deep and cold, You know it all when you hear the pipe— “O Bob White—Bob White!” A mlss.-d refrain In the autumn chill— "O Boh White! <) Boh While!” But dreams will lurk in the frosty fell, And echoes ring like a silver bell. When Winter tiptoes over the hill— "() Bob White Bob White!” — Youth's Companion. A*«»*»«»«»*»»«««»«»**»**«« • • n : TED’S R0SE • « • T was Ted's birthday; he was dressed in ills best for the after noon's outing in the park, and lie was very particular not to soli his new shoes at the crossing, so he kept a look out for dry spots, until some one called to him: “Hello. >, Teddy!" said a friendly Voice from lhe florist's window, “You look very fine this morning.” “It's my birthday, and I’m seven years old to-day,” Ted a nswered proudly. “Well, well, you're quite a man. sure enough!" Mr. Burke laughed. “Walt a moment. Ted; 1 have Just the thing you want.” He came out presently with three long stemmed yellow tea- roses, their cups of gold fairly brim ming with delicious fragrance. "Been training them for this very oc casion,” he explained cheerily, “nud they opened Just lu time. They'll keep a long while if you're real careful.” Ted was Inordinately- fond of flowers - yellow tea-roses by preference—he had them on birthdays, holidays, and as often between times as Ills mamma could afford; but there had been no roses of late; tliinge had gone woefully wrong at the office, and Ted had to be contented with looking at the plants In the florists’ windows. He thanked Mr. Burke, and walked away with the roses held protectlugly out of range of hurrying passers-by; and ft was hard Io say which was the lovelier, the roses BESIEGED TWENTY.FOUR YEARS. sir the cherub face above them. The crowd blocked bls progress at Canilia Held Out for That Length of Time Against tlie Turks. ihe street corner, and while he waited One of the longest sieges in history lie heard a man say, In a low, distinct was that of Candla (Crete). It lasted voice: “Yonder's that mlsg^ Northcut, the twenty-four years, and was begun by tlie Turks in June, 1645, when they ipoorest man in New York.” "And the most unhappy,” said his landed a large army, variously esti mated at from 74,060 to 150,000 men. companion. Ted had the curiosity to run abend On Kept. 3, 1669, the town capitulated, to look at the most unhappy man in after a siege which is estimated to INew York, He was very tall anil thin have cost the lives of 40,000 Christians and sl< k looking, Ted wondered how and nearly 120,000 Turks. Constantinople was besieged by either ihe came to be so well dressed, for even to his unpraetleed eye he presented a Persians or Turks from A. D. 626 to good appearance. Homebody must have 675. From 668 to 675 the Turks repeat given him Ills old clothes, of course, ed their attacks yearly. just as papa always gave his clothes to The siege of Gibraltar, attacked by poor people. Ted watched him with land and sea, lasted four years, from sympathetic Interest, and even follow 1779-1783. cd him to the door of a near by restau I luring rant, where be took a sent at a side mutz was table, and Ted could see Ills face very was still held by the Swedes in 1650, plainly. Yes, he certainly did look very when they gave it up in accordance 'unhappy, ami no one seemed to care With agreement, not compulsion. About him in the least; he would Just Tlie siege of Lucknow furnishes the xllp lu ami give him a rose that would most famous example of a British gar jib use him. rison holding out against fearful odds. Ted picked out Ihe largest and hand For eighty-seven days the slender gar somest rose and carried It carefully up rison held out until relief came. This the fast filling aisle lietween the tables Is now eclipsed by Ladysmith. Herat, in Afghanistan, Is one of the anil laid it ou the table before the poor est, unhappiest man In New York, He most frequently besieged cities, having started. turned round, and eyed tlie been besieged fifty time«. Constanti nople lias suffered from twenty-six •little donor sharply. “Hello, who are you?" he asked very sieges, and Paris from eleven.—Stray Stories. •brusquely. “I'm led Winterburn," came the Senator Gear'« Dishonest llat. surprised answer. When Senator Giar of Iowa came Tlie old man's lips moved and he seemed about to ask another question, Into the Senate ehamlter the other day lie knew Ted's father very well In- he dropped his slouch lint on the floor ilecd; he had him lu a "corner," where In the aisle beside Ids desk. Senator lie Intended to keep him till his last Stewart came striding along, kicking dollar was gone. The thought of that the hat Into the pit In front of the Pres triumph gave him a great deal of satis ident's rostrum, and passed along, un fact.un «lien he remembered certain conscious of the indignity to Senator n.ut.is of the past 111 which Winter Gear's cherished headpiece. A page picked up the lint, brushed It bt .ii had defeated his Interests. “llum!” he muttered. “Roses In mid- off and brought It back to Its place on wiiue>! Such extravagance! He de- the floor. Senator Gear growled sav s.i % < his bad link. I don't think you'd agely and shot a tierce glance after better give these away.” he said aloud; Senator Stewart. Soon afterward Senator Gear started “the,, d, l> I belong to you." to go to his committee room. Just as "H liy, yes, they doe«!” Ted answer ed lU.ignanlly. “Mr. Burke glved lie rose Senator Perkins, of California, got up and addressed tlie chair. Mr. them to me for my birthday." "Oil. he did? Weil, that's different.” Gear stood up to listen to what Mr. He took the long stemmed rose In bis Perkins was saylug. Then he thought thin hand and sulffed at It gingerly. of Ills hat. It wasn't on bls head, nor “Much obliged. I'm sure," he said, on was It In his band. He summoned a page second thought. “Boy." he asked severely, “where's Ted looked over the meager fare pityingly. If there was anything In my hat?" The page looked around and then the world lie disliked It was cambric tea and dry toast, sti.-h as he saw lying edged away, "Please, sir," he said In a frightened on the jMior man's plate. He could not know that Ills friend’s jade«! appetite voice, "you're standing on It."—Wash lefu-cd to take anything but the titer ington special. est necessities. He sipped the cambric 1 <eal Realised. tea In silence until the waiter brought The Rev. Mr. Joyner—And Ted a glass of milk on a silver salver. two are making life one grand, sweet “Take it," said the man authorita song? tively, and Ted found that he was Rattles Yes, doctor, a reg’lar opera; really very thirsty. with frantic calls for the author when “Now,” said the (>oor man. when Ted baby crle«. Brooklyn IJfe. put down the empty glass, "I'd like to know why you gave me that rose.” Love la a thing of four letter«—but a "Because I feel sorry for you," came good many additional letters are apt to turn up In a breach of promt«« euiL th« «low and truthful answer. H / • * “Sorry? And why?” he demanded. “Because you’s the very poorest and sorriest man in New York.” “The poorest man In New York!” be echoed, grimly. “Who told you that?” “1 don’t know Ills name. 'Twas a man on the street, and be telled an other man that.” “Oil!” with a queer, mirthless smile. ' “And you feel sorry for a poor, friend less strn uger?" “Yes. I does," said Ted. very gravely and sweetly. There was a little embarrassed pause, during which the keen, hollow eyes looked into Ted's beautiful face as though searching for something, which i ihey must have found presently, for i tlie dark, o!d face relaxed into a smile, which utterly contradicted tlie hard. | cruel lines about the thin lips. “I thank you very much for the rose, my little friend.” he said, “but most of all for the sweet thought that prompt ed your kindness. It’s many a long day since I've bad such a precious gift," lie added, with a queer break in his voice. He took from Ids pocket a memoran dum and scribbled a few words across tlie face of a printed note. “Ask your father to read that to you as soon ns you go home,” lie said. "Don't lose it; it's your birthday pres ent from the poorest man in New York.” It was lunch time when Ted reached home. Papa sat at the table stirring Ids tea absently and looking over a loug row of figures in tlie latest paper. “Gerry, do try to eat something,” said mamma, anxiously, from her place at the head of the table. Ted went over and laid the crumpled paper beside Ids plate, and his father leaned over and glanced at It unsee- ingly; but Its contents caught and riv eted Ids Instant attention. “To Gerald W. Winterburn, to hold In trust for ills son Ted, 75 shares of the Union Traction stocks, being the full value of the original cash deposit of said Gerald W. Winterburn In the company's securities. (“Signed) ALEX. NORTHCUTT, “President Union Traction Co.” He read it over twice mid three times in speechless wonder; then mamma took Hlarm at ills changed, bewildered looks, and rose and looked over bis shoulder at the bit of paper In his trem- bling hand. "Alex. Northcutt! Gerry, what enn It mean?” she asked, in breathless amazement. “It means that a miracle has liappen- ed. and lie lias saved me frotn utter ruin at tlie eleventh hour. Alex. Northcut, whom men call skin-flint and miser! What can have moved him to such u wondrous deed?” "It was tlie rose,” said Ted, confident ly. Which was really not all; but the parents guessed the rest.—Ledger Monthly. / [/LlOTHtR C0VKTR1 q TIDE OF IMMIGRATION ITALY SUHIA*««POLAHP < > AU5TRU HUHGAJtY G ermany be shark IwepeH, N orway UNITED KINGDOM ( Its Ebbs and Flows Have Left Nearly 20,000,000 Foreigners on Our Shores OT only does Immigration into the United States exceed that into any other country in the world, but it is of a character which makes tlie subject one of the greatest Interest and well worth the study of historian and political economist. In ancient times whole nations emigrated and sought new homes, driven from their former ones by oppression and force, or lured from them by the at tractions of more fertile fields and more From the time when the tide of immi gration really began to set toward these shores until now. New York has been the great receiving and distribut ing point for the seekers of new homes. Of the entire number of Immigrants who arrived in tlie United States from Oct. 1, 1819, to June 30, 1898, nearly 69 per cent, debarked at the port of New York. Tills lias had much to do with keeping New York a cosmopolitan com- munity. Governor Roosevelt, In writ- number of Immigrants to the United I RAM'S HORN BLASTS. States. Next In order are Ireland, England and Wales. Norway and Swe »•rain* N«tea Calling ths Wick»4 t* ^•»eataacs. den, British America, Italy, Austria- Hungary, Russia and Poland. France, —> POOR servant Scotland, China, Switzerland, Den makes a bard mark, the Netherlands, the West In master. dies. Spain and Portugal, Belgium, Activity is not Asia, exclusive of China; islands of the always industry. Atlantic. Mexico, islands of tlie Pacific, Be grateful for South America. Central America and your blessings, Africa. and it will make lu the first decade tlie arrivals from y^iur trials look Germany numbered only 6.761. Subse- small. quently there was a rapid Increase from No one who is that country, reaching a maximum fit for heaven from 1851 to 1860. There was a decided wants to go there decrease in the two succeeding decades, alone. but between 1881 and 1890 the figures Tlie devil is the father of every doubt. rose to more than double the number A quiet mule is better than a balky from any other country, and dropped horse. considerably In tlie present decade. Patience will cure more pains than From 1820 to 1850, 57 per cent, of ftll ¡Inmigration was fiom tlie United King physic. dom, aud a large majority of the immi Tlie seed of prayer always springs up grants were Irish. Irish immigration into praise. increased rapidly until 1860, and then I The devil has a mortgage on every decreased until 1870. Then for ten boy who smokes. years it slowly increased again, aud be Love that enriches not another im tween 1881 and 1890 showed a marked Increase. Since 1890 Irish immigration poverishes itself. Tlie less you value the world the more lias decreased. Tlie inimiginUon of English and Welsh rose steadily until it is worth to you. A man may have a good deal of re- 1871, when for ten years there was a falling off. In the succeeding ten years, liglou and yet not have Christ. however, English aud Welsh immi A minute with God in the morning grants increased rapidly, outnumbering will mean God with you all day. the Irish, and being second only to the An unregenerated conscience may Germans. In the last seven years they make you a conscientious brute. again have fallen Le.ow the Irish in Heavenly mindedness is for the office numbers. Italian immigration was small up to 1870, but since then it has and store as well as for the church. To be contented with what we have rapidly been increasing, and in the last seven years nearly half a million Ital is about the same as to own the earth. ians have arrived here. Prior 1 to 1871 There Is no ca’e on record where immigration from Russia i nuil Poland God ever blessed a man against Ills wllL was small, but since then it has been In speaking with God remember men; increasing fast, and since 1890 over In speaking with men remember God. 417,600 immigrants from those conn- People do not grow much In grace tries have arrived. The immigrants ar while they are having their own way. riving in the United States in the four A warm-hearted preacher will gener years ending June 30, 1898. brought to this country in cash the sum of $16,- ally find a way to warm up a cold church. 437,429. The devil would rather start a church NORWAY. fuss any time than to sell a barrel of whisky. In One District Consumption Has In One of the biggest fools in the world creased Alarmingly. In writing of the terrible scourge of is the man who thinks the devil's husks consumption In Norway. United States can make him fat. One of the hardest things the devil Consul Victor E. Nelson, located at Bergen, says: In November of last has ever tried to do Is to put a long face year Dr. Claus Hausen, of Bergen, de on a happy Christian. livered a lecture before the Storthing, When the devil was cast out of heav at Christiana, on tlie causes of tuber en he stole an angel's robe with which culosis and the fight against it to bide his cloven hoof. K ! EBB ANI) FLOW OF IMMIGRATION. genial climates of other regions. One of the greatest of these early migra tions was the passage of 2,500,000 Is raelites out of Egypt into Palestine. But, as Is pointed out in the report of the State Board of Labor Statistics, "not since the confusion of tongues at Babel, which led to tlie scattering of the people 'abroad upon the face of the earth,’ has there been anything of such a cosmoplltan nature as that which forms the phenomenal immigration to the American States,” From the treaty of peace with Eng land in 1783 to June 30, 1898, according to a carefid collation of the figures of accepted authorities, there arrived in the States 19,668,556 Immigrants, drawn from every nation under the sun. Statistics of Immigration were I not kept until 1819, "but it is conceded by statistical experts that the number of immigrants arriving in the twenty- I six years preceding was 250,000, exclu sive of negroes.” In tlie early periods of immigration a whole year did not bring to these shores as many immi grants as land now at the port of New York in a single week. “In 1718 the landing at Boston of five vessels, hav ing on board 750 Irish immigrants, and Ing of New York in 1775, says: “New York’s population was composed of various races, differing widely in blood, religion and conditions of life. In fact, this diversity has always been the dominant note of New York. No sooner has one set of varying elerneuts been fused together than another stream has been poured into the crucible.” A glance at the chart published here- MAKING A VAST PORTRAIT. Painting a Face Seventy Feet by Forty- five, on Broadway. THE TRANSPORTATION AGENT. EXAMINATION BEFORE T1IE HEALTH OFFICERS. in 1729 the arrival at Philadelphia in one week of several small ships con taining passengers from Ireland excit ed much comment; while even toward the close of that century the entry into New York harbor in one day of two teasels laden with Germans created a » with will show bow immigration ebbs and flows from time to time. The Com missioner, in his report, says: “The fig ures in the table of annual arrivals in dicate that Immigration, like ocean tides, recedes for a while, then rises again. Aside from the civil war period stated that during the 30 years of his own experience consumption had in creased in the Bergen district 80 per cent. In the year 1896, 54.5 per cent, of all deaths between 15 and 30 years of age were caused by tuberculosis, and statistics show that about 7,000 of the inhabitants of Norway die every year of this disease. In England, he continued, they have succeeded during the last 50 years in reducing one-half the number of tuberculosus eases, and physicians attribute this to the increas ing cleanliness in English home life and the erection of consumptive hos pitals. The foremost endeavors in fighting tuberculosis should be to agi tate for greater cleanliness in general; particularly should efforts be directed against the habit of expectorating. Statistics of consumptive sanitariums In Germany show that 66 1-3 per cent of the inmates were able to work the first year after the cure, 60 per cent after two year». 45 per cent, after three and 35 per cent, after four years. On an average, it Is estimated that 50 per cent of the patients In sanitariums I The Broadway throngs passing a cer tain corner forgot their usual rush, and frequently the sidewalks ate congest ed as the crowds stop and look up at the side wall of a building, says the New York Mail and Express. They stand upon the swinging bridges and walk up anh down them witlt as little concern as if they were threading the flagstones beneath. But what attracts the spectators more than anything else is the nature of their work. They are paiutlug a colossal portrait on the.slde of the wall. Tlie oval in which the head is contained is five stories In height and about three In breadth, or about 70 feet high and 45 feet wide. The resemblance to the man whom ft Is intended to represent is striking, and the accuracy witli which tlie lines nre drawn is remarkable when the size of the picture and the proximlity of the painters is considered. The swinging scaffolding Is, of course, directly against the wall, and there can be no “stepping back” to see tlie effect of the work, but every line is as true as a plummet, and to a drawing master the “drawing" would be considered almost faultless. The men work from a small photo graph. held in the left hand while they put In the lines with the right, The artist at first began to make a small portraits only about two stories high, and had finished up a third of it when for some reason a change in the size was determined upon, and, leaving the smaller sketch as it was, worked the larger over it, giving it a rather weird effect. Found the Enil«. An Irishman who was out of work went on board a vessel that was In the harbor and asked the captain if he could find him work on the ship. “Well,” said the captain, at the same time handing the Irishman a piece of rope, “if you can find three ends to that rope you shall have some work.” The Irishman got hold of the rope, and, showing It to the captain, said: “That's one end, your honor.” Then he took hold of the other end. and. showing it to the captain as before, said, “And that's two ends, your hon or." Then, taking hold of both ends of the rope, he threw it overboard, say ing. “And. faith, there's another end to it, your honor.” He was immediately engaged.—Lon- King. Conjugating a Verb. United States consul recently re turned here gives the following account of how English Is taught in the French schools: "Jean, you will stand up.” said the master to his brightest pupil upon the occasion of the consul's visit. "Now. conjugate the verb 'I have a gold mine.' ” "I have a gold mine,” re sponded the bright pupil, with scarcely an accent. "Thou hast a gold thine, he has a gold hlsen, we have a gold ourn. you have a gold yourn, they have a gold theirn.” Posterity of an Engl aensation During the era of Dutch rule In New Netherlands a couple of •blpa annually conveyed all the re-en forcements to the colony, and In that whole time the Immigration consisted of ouly a few tbo-saud.” 1 s ' i Sparrow. A statistician of small things figures It out that the posterity of one English nud that part of the present decade have their ability to work lengthened •parrow amounts in ten years to some ending June 30, 1898, the incoming by one year. The advantages of pub thing like 276,000.000.000 birds. wave of each decennial term rose high lic sanitariums for consumptives are It Is terribly easy to get a person en er than the one Immediately preceding so great that the German invalld-lnsur It” a nee companies erect these Institution« gaged in wondering if perhaps ha isn't throwing himself away. Germany ha* furnished th« largest simply for reasons of economy. IMMIGRANTS IN THE RAILWAY STATION. 1